SUNDAY.....SUNDAY

My how Sundays have changed as I have gone through my life........Sundays were family days with a good fried chicken dinner and Moms red -devel's food cake with that special frosting!!!!  No one went to church much......sometimes it was dinner with grandma and the aunts and uncles or off on a picnic with daddy and Mom while he fished.........while us kids explored and Mom looked for her favorite thing.......drift-wood.

DON 'T remember Church being too important through my two years at BYU.......even though it was a big church school......I don't remember EVER going to church???  My year in Denver with the  Kellers certainly wasn't churchy and my years of flying as a Stewardess......I never went to church.......Got married and had Pam and she and I went to church some.....I was a primary teacher and  Relief Society teacher until the twins came along......THEN....no church until they could go to their class......and that was not often.   After Don walked out I was very angry at God and the Church and went some with the twins but for 27 years .......not much.....NOW!  I have gotten back into the church...tithing etc.....because my grandson Ken is on a service mission on Temple Square and I am to set an example and lead and guide him.....SOOOO no more movies, eating out or shopping on Sunday....just Church, a nap and dinner..........Today was Fast Sunday and Testimony Sunday and I hate to sit through all those crying sessions of 'POOR ME".....and how I love the Lord!  We all do....but isn't it a personal thing that we all endure in privacy?  How can you stand up in front of two or three hundred people and cry for 20 minutes?????  Oh well, God I am trying........

WHAT IS YOUR LEGACY?

OLD.......... but what will be your Legacy?  What will I be remembered for?......We have no idea what our Legacy will be after we are gone.......but our legacy is left with every life we touch......It is every person we called friend or neighbor, mother, sister or daughter.......Do people walk away after they meet you.....having kind words or feelings about you......or hope they never see you again?  When the time comes and you are gone......what have you left your children?  What have you left your family and friends.......and neighbors?  Everything you do that leaves a hand-print or a heart-print is your legacy.......And there's a chance to make a difference daily, building a legacy as a giver of and supporter of others.

I will never forget the words of Darren's dad....BUD......When he told me once....."Betty, everybody likes you".......that meant so much to me!.......because I have tried to be that kind of person!

We all know what kind of Legacy the shooter in Las Vegas last week is leaving........

BEFORE YOU JUDGE SOMEONE.......WALK A HUNDRED MILES IN THEIR SHOES......

AFTER THAT WHO CARES?

THEY ARE A HUNDRED MILES AWAY AND YOU HAVE THEIR SHOES!!!!!

GOOD NEWS ....BAD NEWS

FIRST THE GOOD NEWS,,,,,,We pulled off the surprise of the year.....a 60th Birthday Party for Pam and Rob......I still don't know how I did it?  It's so hard to keep a secret.

NOW THE BAD NEWS.......Last night a kook shot and killed over 50 people and sent over 500 to the hospitals hurt at a Las Vegas Concert......that is all that is on the news today......the guy was a 60 something year old from Mesquite......they are still trying to figure out why ......down there.......The innocent people were at a  music festival of western singers.......the gunner in his room in the hotel across the street hotel.  The Country is in shock as they try to figure out what is going on in our world.

I feel so sorry for those families who lost loved ones......You fall, you rise.....Sometimes you must hurt in order to know......all in order to grow.  Lose in order to gain.....because most of life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.......

Sherrie ran by for a few minutes after she dropped Ken off and Patty Beltz came for coffee.  I did get my bills made out.....mailed .......and had a flu shot!

I AM SIMPLY THANKFUL THAT GOD WOKE ME UP AND BLESSED ME WITH THE PRECIOUS GIFT OF LIFE TODAY.....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NICCI......

       MY NICCI TURNS 32....... WITH OLLIE.
Such a fun surprise to have Nicci fly in  from Seattle this weekend for her parents 60th surprise Birthday Party.....which the three kids put on.  Nicci has been in Seattle for four months working for Amazon and Ollie has been back east with Bill's folks.....Bill picked him up this weekend and they will soon all be one family again......in Seattle.....with Bill working for Microsoft.  Love this little girl and a HAPPY BIRTHDAY NIC...

BE HAPPY.......

THE above is just a small example........

We always compare our worst to someone's best.......But God made us all different......He didn't make one kind of flower in one color......He made many different kinds of flowers in many colors.......That is what we are as women, we need to just appreciate what God gave is and be happy.  Whatever our color, size or beauty.  I think Happiness is a choice ......and we have to be happy with ourselves first. I hope I can appreciate my health.......even though it is not perfect.....I appreciate my home and being able to help Ken through his mission, because I am not alone....I have enough to eat and enough money to pay my bills......I have wonderful neighbors and friends and a supportive family near by......I fully understand that if you wait for someone to make you happy ........you may end up sad!!!

Don't know where September went and now October and Fall are upon us......Nicci, Darren and Scott have birthdays........It is time for my Flu Shot this week, bridge on Wednesday and so it goes......and I am happy for everyday God gives me.

THE BEST REVENGE IS ALWAYS TO JUST HAPPILY MOVE ON AND LET KARMA (AND GOD)......DO THE REST.

SIXETY????

      I AM SO PROUD OF ME.......I CAN KEEP A SECRET .  My Pam and Rob turned 60 this year....Rob in June, Pam in August.  Soooo.....their 3 kids decided to give them a surprise party for the "BIG 60"......Nicci flew in from Seattle Friday and stayed with Rob's sister where the party was set for.  Tiff had to invent an excuse to keep them in town by asking them to tend Aaron etc.....Will was on board to help where ever needed.......They had a taco bar and decorated the house cute.....Pam and Aaron came over to visit me that afternoon and told me she was going to Julie's for a family thing because Mark's mother had just died.......she never dreamed I was dying to ask her......"can you and Rob pick me up to go to your surprise party at Julies tonight?"........BUT I didn't!  They were very surprised to see a house full of people and especially their sweet Nicci.  Bill,...... Nicci's husband...... had gone to pick up their dog from his folks and will be in Seattle to start his new job the 9th.  Sherrie and Karrie were not there, but Don and the KMart Lady and I were......plus their three kids and grandchild.......and lots of good friends.   The kids pulled it off and they seemed thrilled.  This is their 4th of July Party picture.....no pictures from last night have popped up yet.

OCTOBER.......

LDS CONFERENCE WEEKEND......LOVE THIS MAN.

Can't believe Conference weekend is here already.....did it rain?  Of course.....it always storms on conference weekend in October and April.   I listened .....intently.....to the words of the men who direct the church.......and a peace came over me about Karrie......If she is happy....".let her be"....it is me who has to become strong and support her decision.   Look deep and past things.....so many trials in her young life....beginning about 16 when she found her father was having an affair......and kept it a secret for so long......being an identical twin and the one who always was not the cheer-leader, who helped her twin with her scrapbook business.....who helped her twin with her purse business......who tried five years to have a third baby when her twin had one with no problem..... throw in and affair and whose husband did not have a house boat, airplane, cabin in Park City and a big house???? who knows what feelings she had.......so I will not judge her if she feels her life is better not dealing with any of her family.....I will continue to pray every night that she will be happy and health and move on with my life.

THIS IS THE MESSAGE I TOOK AWAY FROM THIS CONFERENCE.